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Mr. Frederic Harrison

English historian and positivist, mentioned in intellectual debates.

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First appearance: heretics

Mr. Frederic Harrison shows up with force in Christmas and the Aesthetes. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Harrison represents the English Positivists who reject Comte's rituals, which Chesterton argues are the only sensible part of Comtism.
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